By Rob Pickard
Following last week’s look at the Australian brewing icon, Coopers Brewery, in our first post looking at a range of unique Bibendum producers, we focus on one of Mexico’s finest exports, tequila, and the renowned El Tesoro de Don Felipe Tequila, part of the Bibendum portfolio of boutique spirit brands. El Tesoro is not …
By Will Lowe
What happens when you get a load of London bartenders together in a room, then fill it up with Tequila? Well, probably not quite what you are expecting. This would be due, in part, to the bad reputation which still lingers (undeservedly) around the tequila category. And, to be fair, the reputation which continues to thrive regarding London’s bartenders!
February 1st saw the launch of the El Tesoro Tequila competition, in which …
By Dale Sklar
Dale in Agave fields
It’s October 2nd 2009 and I’m booked on BA 243 to Mexico City, flying out five days later, when I get a telephone call from an old friend, a Mexican Ambassador… “Dale, I strongly recommend you delay your visit, my sister tells me there’s an outbreak of Dengue fever…”. I cancelled my …
By Will Lowe
Salt rim or no salt rim?
This debate has divided the Lowe household for quite some time. For years, the most obvious answer has been the classic “half-salt rim” solution. Half salted, half not, and everybody’s happy. Except they’re not, are they?
Everybody’s half happy.
A new approach was clearly required. Enter the Cocktail Chemist. Molecular Gastronomy has been quietly working it’s way into the mainstream for some …
